Günter Lanitzki

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Günter Lanitzki (born July 19, 1930 in Nowawes ) is a German journalist and non-fiction author.

Life

In the early 1950s, Günter Lanitzki saw documentaries by Hans Hass that aroused his interest in archeology and the history of old ships. During this time he also met Anders Franzén , with whom he had a long friendship. In 1960 he made the first finds of old amphorae fragments in Albania . This was followed by publications in the magazine Poseidon . When he heard about the discovery of the Vasa in 1959 , he became increasingly concerned with this ship. He visited the Vasa shipyard in Sweden several times, where the ship was preserved after it was salvaged. He then tried to ensure that the traveling exhibition about the ship, sponsored by the Rostock Shipping Museum, could be shown in several cities in the GDR and in 1971 wrote an exhibition catalog. He was invited as a guest of honor to the opening of the Vasa Museum in 1990.

In the early 1970s, Lanitzki was head of the public relations department at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , later in the same department at VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin . He then worked as a freelance journalist.

In 1980 he published his first book at VEB Brockhaus-Verlag . He was subsequently the author of other books on underwater archeology.

In 1965 he was appointed "correspondent particular" by Jacques-Yves Cousteau . Carl XVI. In 1990 Gustaf appointed him Knight of the North Star Order, First Class, for his journalistic work .

In 2009 it became known in Sweden that Lanitzki was working there as a spy during the Cold War era . His aliases at the MfS were "Taucher" and "Ebert". In October 1980 he was awarded the National People's Army (NVA) Medal of Merit by Erich Mielke.

Lanitzki's secret visit to Sweden is first described in 1974 (without a name). The book IB och hotet mot vår säkerhet was used as evidence at the 1974 trial of Peter Bratt, Jan Guillou and former intelligence agent Håkan Isacson.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Christer Olsén: Gotland under Kalla kriget. (PDF; 2.9 MB) Fallet Günter Lanitzki, alias "Taucher", alias "Ebert". In: ogaora.se. Föreningen Sveriges Öga & Öra, December 23, 2018, accessed on May 8, 2019 (Swedish).
  2. Günter Lanitzki: Wasa 333 years on the seabed; Special exhibition; Oct. 1970 – May 1971 , Transport Museum, Dresden 1971, DNB 575531533 .
  3. Carola Schütze: In search of witnesses from times long past. In: Neue Zeit , February 3, 1981, p. 3. (Interview)
  4. a b c Christel Seiffert: People: Günter Lanitzki from Treptow. In: Berliner Zeitung , March 31, 1993, p. 20.
  5. Department for local museums. Council for Museum Affairs : New Museum Studies: Theory and Practice of Museum Work . tape 14 . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1970, p. 223 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Maud von Ossietzky: Die Weltbühne . tape 30 . Weltbühne Verlag, 1975, p. 221 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ Gunnar Ekberg: De ska ju ändå dö - tio år i svensk underrättelsetjänst . Fischer & Co, Stockholm 2009, ISBN 978-91-85183-75-3 .